Grammar, syntax and morphology

Many linguists have believed that there is no connection between culture and language structures.

This monograph addresses fundamental syntactic issues of classifier constructions, based on a thorough study of a typical classifier language, Mandarin Chinese.

This volume contains 22 of the papers presented at the 5th Conference on Afroasiatic Languages (CAL 5) held at Universite Paris VII in June 2000.

This monograph investigates the syntax of the finite verb in Mocheno, a minority language spoken in a German speech island of Northern Italy.

Cheyenne: An Analysis of Clause Linkage provides a detailed description of Cheyenne syntax, semantics, and pragmatics, notably on its nominal and verbal system and in both simple and complex sentences.

This volume contains ten revised and expanded papers selected from the dozens presented at the last Michigan-Berkeley Germanic Linguistics Roundtable, five contributions each from syntax (by Werner Abraham, Sarah Fagan, Isabella Barbier, John te Velde, and Ruth Lanouette) and historical linguistics (by Garry Davis and Gregory Iverson, Mary Niepokuj, Neil Jacobs, Edgar Polomé, and David Fertig).

Global English Slang brings together nineteen key international experts and provides a timely and essential overview of English slang around the world today.

Until recently grammars of English have received surprisingly little scholarly attention, while a lot of research is done on dictionaries.

There are far more syntactically distinct languages than we might have thought; yet there are far fewer than there might have been.

This book provides a number of studies of different aspects of Swedish child language.

Burmese: A Comprehensive Grammar is a complete reference guide to modern Burmese grammar.

Refreshed and updated, the fifth edition of this core textbook offers a clear and engaging introduction to the building blocks of the English language, namely its words, sounds and sentences.

Approaching Dialogue has its primary focus on the theoretical understanding and empirical analysis of talk-in-interaction.

This book offers a formally coherent theory of the interaction of phonological and morphological processes.

This work, first published in 1979, was a doctoral dissertation submitted to the Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology on June 22nd 1973.

First Published in 2004.

Syntactic movement is a pervasive phenomenon in natural language and, as such, has played a key role in syntactic theorizing.

Every society thrives on stories, legends and myths.

Vocatives have rarely been comprehensively discussed in their various facets.

This book presents the first comprehensive description of the Manambu language of Papua New Guinea.

This volume offers qualitative as well as corpus-based quantitative studies on three domains of grammatical variation in the British Isles.

This book offers a comprehensive account of adjuncts in generative grammar, seeking to reconcile the differing ways in which they have been treated in the past by proposing a method of analysis grounded in simplification based on Simplest Merge.

This book is the first comprehensive survey of modals and modal constructions in the languages of Europe.

Was haben die Wörter Glück, Liebhaber, Möglichkeit, Idee und Tradition gemeinsam?

This volume brings together the latest diachronic research on syntactic features and their role in restricting syntactic change.

Analysing Sentences is an accessible and student-friendly introduction to the practical analysis of English sentence structure.

The result of over five years of close collaboration among an international group of leading typologists within the EUROTYP program, this volume is about the morphology and syntax of the noun phrase.

The introduction to this volume by Anders Holmberg provides a reflection on movement in the light of recent developments in Minimalist theory.